What If Portugal and Spain Became a Single Country?

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[@General.Knowledge]

What should the next video be about??

[@derneugamer1598]

The old country of the free city of Danzig (I think it was independent before WW2 or sometime near that

[@avantelvsitania3359]

Galiza, Olivença, ou extensão da ZEE

[@remigerets1007]

Do one about the Benelux union( belgium, netherlands and Luxemburg)

[@irmaosmatos4026]

the old powers of the world that are weak now, like Portugal, Austria or Mongolia

[@doomi4055]

All North America

[@davidbueno5988]

Spain and Portugal are close brothers, but this is not Alabama

[@ricardorelvas4769]

Best comment 😂

[@andrewsantana4057]

Underrated AF

[@General.Knowledge]

Good analogy

[@TiagoSilva-gb4kv]

🏆🏆🥇

[@immeen4868]

@@IDSd We are Iberians brothers!

[@tijuanatico0922]

Man, we need to keep separate to give each other the 12 points in Eurovision

[@antoniomanso620]

i was looking for this cmment

[@andrecosta281]

This has happened many times ahaha!

[@AlirioAguero2]

Same thing with Ex Yugoslavia. Serbians and Slovenians could bring the biggest dump and we'd still give them 12 points. Well, not me personally, but my country certainly would. :)

[@phillip_iv_planetking6354]

That was funny.

[@mementomori5388]

Best Argument Ever.

[@Callumisquestionable]

“A union within a union would be weird” *Awkwardly locks eyes with the UK*

[@andregoncalves5200]

True reason why they left

[@sohopedeco]

German and Austria are true federal states within the European Union, though.

[@General.Knowledge]

LOL well I guess they're gone now :(

[@leok8189]

Also, portugal with one of the largest maritime economic zones? What? Awkwardly locks eyes with the UK, France, the US, Indonesia, and lots of other countries hahah

[@valhalla-tupiniquim]

People are very complicated. My God!

[@Ziuralen]

Portugal and Spain: form the Iberian Union Lithuania: looks nervously at Poland Poland: throws a smug glance at Lithuania Germany: throws a smug glance at Austria Austria: HUNGARY, LET ME IIIIIIN

[@kuyaleinad4195]

Hypocricide Nah more like: Austria: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) to Germany... Austria is more than happy to join Germany but after WWII, Austria was forced to write a ‘Not allowed to join Germany’ clause in its constitution. Or was it more that Hungary fully despises a possible Austria-Hungary Union? 😂

[@bananamancer]

Russia: spreads arms to hug their neighbours Poland, Ukraine, Baltic States: back away nervously Mongolia: smiles and tries to give a bigger hug Russia: suddenly changes in face and tries to get away China: knows, who will REALLY win this hugging contest

[@JM-sy2zj]

UK: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Ireland: [sweats in Irish]]

[@rubensneto9049]

Brazil to Uruguay: oi sumido rsrsrsrs

[@cadenaspoke9027]

lmao

[@jebaited5106]

"What If Portugal and Spain Became a Single Country?" Padeira de Aljubarrota: Am I a joke to you?

[@matheusmandai6675]

Ou melhor, a reposta poderia ser: By the way, I'd like you meet the Aljubarrota's lady baker...

[@gustavodeoliveira5254]

Perdão mas que é essa padeira?

[@mustko999]

@@gustavodeoliveira5254 na guerra de aljubarrota, depois dos castelhanos perderem para Portugal, 7 dos militares castelhanos escoderam-se numa padaria, a padeira deu-lhes com o pau em cima deles matou-os e queimou-os no forno onde fazia pão

[@rinobertocirrocumulo1634]

Aljubarrota was Castile, not Spain.

[@gustavodeoliveira5254]

@@mustko999 jesus, nunca vou mexer com padeiros portugueses hahahaha muito interessante essa história

[@avantelvsitania3359]

>What if Portugal and Spain became a singl... The entirety of Portugal: *NÃO*

[@francscoalbuquerque7497]

I WANT PORTUGAL BELONG TO CHINA

[@ALFRABEIRA]

@P4to D0l4n AH AH AH AH :-))

[@jbarreira9879]

@P4to D0l4n Nem no Júlio de Matos saía uma pesquisa dessas

[@splashnskillz37]

@P4to D0l4n Duvidooooo

[@Hramable]

@P4to D0l4n por favor... As pesquisas que vi sobre esse assunto, foram feitas por espanhóis... Nessas pesquisas dum tal "instituto real delcano" (ler em espanhol) ou lá como a coisas se chamava, eles põem sempre uma grande percentagem de portugueses a quererem a suposta união e um número elevado de espanhóis a não quererem dando a ideia de que há um certo 'desespero português' em "aderir" à causa e os espanhóis a não gostarem muito da ideia... E isto aconteceu diversos anos a fio... Se não estou em erro, 2011, 2012, 2013...Gostava era de ver um instuto português a fazer o mesmo na Galiza ou na Catalunha só para ver como os gajos (espanhóis) reagiriam. Há também um canal aqui no KZbin dum chanfrado espanhol que se chama 'Portugal is Spain' onde aparece a península ibérica coberta com a bandeira de Espanha, claro, fui lá, tentei denunciar e só não lhe chamei espanhol, o resto chamei-lhe tudo...

[@raquelmateo9623]

Honestly, as a spanish person, I wouldn't mind joining forces with Portugal but not in a "national" way. More like an economic, trade and maybe military cooperation. By the way, I don't think portuguese people are very into the idea, even though I am completely sure that we spanish and portuguese people get on very well in general. Saludos, amigo!

[@pedromiguelalmeida4446]

Portuguese and Spanish military train a lot together (Navy, Army and Air Force - there are for example in the lattest branch mentioned a lot of joint operations with you F-18 and ours F-16). Also, our polices are the most interactive polices in the eu. Many times we go to Spain to learn some tricks of the trade and join combined forces, others are about Spanish policemen in Portugal. I really like this healthy partnership.,

[@quironwhoknows6491]

The EU and NATO already give us plenty of opportunities to interact at all needed levels. But for this to be possible, you'd have to consider we would never accept back monarchy (and even less to become subjects of your king), so you would have to become a republic to allow for our common election of a president and parliament/government.

[@raquelmateo9623]

@@quironwhoknows6491 I really think that most of Spain wouldn't mind to be a Republic. There is a notorious republican movement and it's not like UK where people loved their monarchy. So that wouldn't be any issue haha

[@raquelmateo9623]

@@pedromiguelalmeida4446 I had no idea about it but that's pretty cool

[@General.Knowledge]

I guess if the EU ever collapses, we have that option of creating a common Iberian currency

[@JoaoSilva-sz1fw]

Basically football competitions would be super boring. Iberia would dominate every single tournment

[@splashnskillz37]

France, UK, Germany and Italy would not let them dominate for so long

[@TheMrbadaboum]

Portugal and Spain world cup won combined: 1...

[@CTGReviews]

which football says an english-american

[@JoaoSilva-sz1fw]

@@CTGReviews the one played with the actual FOOT 😂😂😂

[@joshua-es1hs]

It would just be the Spanish nationale team+ Ronaldo

[@antondizxinzo]

As a Galician I love Portugal I will be soon in Portugal learning some Portuguese A strong hug to all👍🏻

[@JmSantos78]

It's funny, I also love the Galicians, I love the fact that your Language is so similar to ours (Portuguese). Happy learnings, I'm sure it'll be easy for you.

[@mansar172]

We could make an exchange: give Southern Portugal to the Castilians, and merge North and Central Portugal with Galicia.

[@gabriellamoda7753]

Bem vinda . Espero que aprendas muito e aprecies o nosso pais

[@antondizxinzo]

João Santos yes, Galician help me a lot to understand, I think that understand 80%, but I want to talk and have a good accent in Portuguese because I think that will help me a lot to enjoy the culture and the people of Portugal Obrigado👍🏻

[@antondizxinzo]

gabriella moda obrigado👍🏻 Vivo cerca da fronteira e suelo viaxar moito a Portugal pero faltame coñecer o idioma para disfrutar 100% do país e creo que pasar unha temporada en Portugal sera unha gran experiencia

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

I like unions, hoping to peacefully reunify Korea

[@meowpoosaymeow]

Bruh you are alive

[@marcelo9866]

@Kim Jong-un I only accept this under your rule, our most celestial and divine leader!

[@Bromine35br]

under South Korea ain’t afraid of you!

[@davidferreira1957]

Where are you really? I want the money from the news sources

[@alfrredd]

Yes, united Iberia and United Korea. Penninsulas of the world: UNITE!!!

[@NibanoTugano]

"A random guy" speaks about Portugal "The entire Portugal" PORTUGAL CARLHOO !!! ELE FALOU DE PORTUGAL !!! VIVA PORTUGAL CARALHO !!!

[@gamerxkingly5385]

Bem, ele é Português

[@NibanoTugano]

@@gamerxkingly5385 eu sei

[@matiasbelli8774]

The old customs passed to Brazil hahaha

[@gustavodeoliveira5254]

Acho que agora sei de onde veio esse mesmo comportamento por parte dos brasileiros hahahaha

[@tarfarr]

É mesmo

[@miguelhidalgo94]

Despite knowing the fact that it's not going to happen given the history that we share, I, as a Spaniard, see Portugal as the most welcoming and close country in absolute terms, at least for us. Portuguese people are incredibly kind and charming, and travelling there really does feel like you didn't cross any border at all.

[@TheBoostedDoge]

you Spaniards aren't too bad yourselves, even though I've never been to Spain proper, just driving through, I've always had good experiences with Spanish folk. I think the "Spain bad" "Portugal bad" mentality is more of an older folks thing. Younger people who grew up with the EU and the Internet etc. don't really think like that even though the history books kind of tell us to.

[@criscosta404]

Thank you for your kind words and we are closest to you in affection than your french neighbors, we are more alike that's for sure, Saludos hermanos 🇵🇹🤝🇪🇸 😉

[@jonynos16]

i feel the same way about u spaniards, i've been to Barcelona, Madrid, Asturias and Malaga for about 1 weak on each one. People are very welcoming, it does seem like the same country without being.

[@playleave7454]

As a portuguese, same when i go to galicia, sems the same people and contry

[@ekileskil]

What about a nordic union? Would be very interesting as a video!

[@TheTattieShaw]

Join his discord and suggest this there link in the description

[@General.Knowledge]

Good idea!

[@sohopedeco]

And the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves!

[@seanw1186]

Nordic Union be like: cörñfédërãtîöń

[@Kathkere]

@@seanw1186 Kønfädårætiön

[@onumero1212]

As a Portuguese, i love spain and I all the times i have been there I had a really good experience. However we should remain separated

[@joseodriozola6042]

O NÚMERO 12 i’m spanish and i think the same

[@rodridm1666]

@@joseodriozola6042 me too

[@kommentariios3852]

Caralho Why you hate Kingdom of Iberia ?

[@lancelotcamelot2572]

Why should they be seperate?

[@DropDeadJD]

How cool would it be if the capital was Olivenza?!

[@rubenbarbosa5404]

have you been to Olivença? It will be the most peaceful capital possible

[@davidbueno5988]

clever

[@joaoduarteazevedo2818]

@@rubenbarbosa5404 take that, Pyongyang and Damascus

[@sohopedeco]

Or... Ceuta!

[@ramiromaia592]

The disputed area would be resolved but then Portugal would also want the rest of the Pre-Roman areas of the old Lusitania back and form the largest province in this union

[@onelima1968]

I am portuguese. And I love Spain but we should remain separated country's. Saludos mi hermanos💪

[@tenebris7]

That is spanish

[@toastymarshmello9925]

Portugal Countryballs Spanish and portuguese are similar

[@wbrao1]

Soy Español, amo Portugal a sus gentes y a su gastronomía, durante años nos peleamos, durante otros fuimos una sola nación, no hemos sabido permanecer juntos y los Portugueses, se han ganado su independencia. A mi particularmente me gustaría una unión, pero es sólo mi deseo. Lástima que Felipe II no hiciera la capital de su reino en Lisboa y le diese la autonomía que demandaban, quizás hoy sería distinto. Un afectuoso saludo.

[@KaneTanakaOta]

Saluditos desde pais vasco

[@DiegoCarmona45]

I am spanish and been in portugal once i love the people in portugal they are the best really good people in my opinion portugal and spain should remain as two diferent countries but if the European Union fals apart we should make an union NOT unifying the countris just a militar and economic union with free borders we are brothers but unifying would be bad

[@nico27]

"completing the rectangle" Best line ever.

[@hugofernandes4778]

Up to the Galicians

[@nytep8581]

Portugal and Spain are both beautiful countries separated.

[@memesdehumanoxd8183]

F

[@KaneTanakaOta]

Si separados para siempre

[@joaotwt2388]

I agree

[@wisslayer69]

True

[@RhyliezthUniverse]

If you look grafics most people wants to be united and it will benefit all

[@adriannielsen787]

Last time I was this early, Napoleon was still conquering Europe

[@General.Knowledge]

*_happy russian winter noises_*

[@superrknight1858]

Adrian Nielsen Europe was still in the Dark Age when I was this early

[@carteradams43]

@@superrknight1858 Rome was still only in italy when I was this early... well i am not early but i'm playing along anyways

[@anna3046]

He didn’t get much far!

[@denovemportem]

Asks: What If Portugal and Spain Became a Single Country? Music in the background: Marcha da Restauração! Well played Sir!!!!! ;)

[@manuelwong3275]

GK: What If Portugal and Spain Became a Single Country? João IV: *sad Bragança noises*

[@Mickeywonderwall]

As a Spanish I would love to join Portugal in a single country. 60 million people, the gate to the Atlantic ocean, tons of history and great potential with south and central america..

[@luckie58]

GK: 100% against this GK: Doesn’t mention he’s portugese

[@diogorodrigues747]

It's not only because he's portuguese. For historical and social reasons, the Iberian Union is a stupid thing. In fact, Spain is the last European empire, ruled by Castille. The Iberian Peninsula should have seven countries instead of two: Portugal, Galicia, Castille, León, Catalonia, Basque Country and Andalucia.

[@luckie58]

Diogo Rodrigues I know, it was just a sidenote.

[@toast2300]

@@diogorodrigues747 isn't it a kingdom instead of an empire

[@ZuGa1384]

@@candyneige6609 What the heck are you talking about? He already said many times He is Portuguese.

[@afonsomarto6587]

@@candyneige6609 ele fala portugues do brasil? 😂😂

[@O_Tucano]

The history of the Iberian Peninsula fascinates me. Proud to be descendant from the Portuguese, great nation. Awesome video, like always.

[@General.Knowledge]

Thank you! It really is an incredibly interesting region throughout history

[@Garapersoda]

KKKKK teu nome é incrível kkkk pinguim bolado kkk

[@Pastanheira]

same and im planning on moving back to my moms town bc living in toronto is pretty boring

[@OMamifero]

Proud of my portuguese heritage, im from the US, my grandparents were born in the Azores but it’s my number one dream to move to Lisbon once I pay off my insane student debt :,)

[@leonardobenetton9852]

I love the fact that portugal and spain are literaly brothers thr relationship bettwen the countries is love and hate and i love that

[@joaodavid1369]

Its like two sibllings

[@kommentariios3852]

Spain is husband and Portugal is wife this is the relation

[@Gomes1989]

I will take the liberty to reply in the name of the entire Portuguese population: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NEVER!!!!"

[@rafallex]

Portugal caralho

[@SrMorais]

mas o cara q fez o vídeo é português caralho

[@O_Tucano]

Hahah

[@diogorodrigues747]

A liberdade doutros povos peninsulares já foi retirada. Basta ver o que aconteceu com a língua galega, que é era a mesma até há uns 60 anos só que agora é um completo trapo castelhano. Ou, por exemplo, o facto de o astur-leonês em Portugal ser oficializado e em Espanha nem por isso, quando 99% dos falantes estão do lado espanhol.

[@TheRealKingLeopoldII]

@Francisco Barberena yeah he is

[@CitroTeam]

É mais fácil a Espanha dividir-se que Portugal juntar-se a eles.

[@bangica4346]

MESMO !!!!!!

[@Allysus535]

É um facto hahaha

[@Allysus535]

Todos os anos andam a ver se se dividem

[@StroxeyOfficial]

ahahahahah

[@arturpatriciocoelho5296]

De Espanha nem bom vento nem bom casamento viva Portugal

[@Leugime20]

É mais fácil Espanha dividir-se em vários países que Portugal juntar-se a Espanha.

[@hjs8092]

Miguel Vilaça absolutamente.

[@NibanoTugano]

It's true :3

[@odesaparecido9373]

Verdade absoluta 😂🤣

[@jorgemanrique743]

Jajajaja muy buena

[@nelsonkaiowa4347]

This needs to be translated so everybody understands because it is true: It is easier for Spain to devide in various countries than join Portugal.

[@midei]

I am from Spain and I love and admire Portugal. It’s a beautiful country with amazing people. I don’t know about “union” and who cares. But one thing for sure is that we should come closer and get to know each other better. We are brothers and sisters. So lots of love for Portugal 🇵🇹

[@JmSantos78]

@midei As a Portuguese I couldn't agree more. The Portuguese and Spanish have this love/hate relationship for no real reason, I think. I guess it's just brotherhood rivalry. :-) The more Spanish people I meet, the more I like them. Only one thing annoys me: Why the hell is it so difficult for the Spanish to understand us, when we find it so easy to understand you. I wish you all the best in these trying times.

[@hjs8092]

Love from Portugal to our Spanish brothers!!

[@emilio4968]

@@JmSantos78 I.m from Spain and I cant understand how in the hell you can understand us so easy when I cant understand you. It´s frustanting

[@jacobscarrottsnow2303]

Support both of you from the UK 👍

[@universoALC]

​ emilio nogueira no, most portuguese people don't understand spanish language... They confuse with the galician language, thinking that is spanish... If they go to Madrid or even Burgos, they will not understand bullshit! Well, some words, of course.........

[@meneither3834]

4:29 if we follow that logic Italy would join but also France, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia. Let's bring back the Western Roman empire baby.

[@Saidsopmac]

All of it or none!

[@helloahla239]

It will happen hopefully. European Union will became a federal state

[@adiossoydaniel]

@@helloahla239 no pls

[@4realm8rusirius]

@@helloahla239 doubt

[@adriabel1479]

Well, the Spanish king already holds the tittle of Roman emperor, so... One step closer, I guess?

[@bernardogoncalves825]

I like so much Portugal and Spain, greetings from Brazil 💖

[@titus_philemon]

- Portugal & Spain unite once again* Brazil - EXPANSION TIME! Watch out Peru.. We're comin' for u!

[@titus_philemon]

Come back to us Cisplatina!!

[@LHollan]

P4to D0l4n 😂 poor Uruguayan 😂

[@General.Knowledge]

Colonization 2: Iberian Boogaloo

[@lauramartins5953]

What?!

[@nicolasscasso1102]

@@LHollan Poor Brazilians with Bolsonaro. Uruguay is a great country .

[@MajBe]

Remember when some spanish site fabricated a false statistic showing that majority of Portugal wanted to join spain while only the minority of spanish people wanted the same? Almost every portuguese I met wouldn't like to join forces with spain

[@hijodeputa5450]

not surprised

[@joemckim1183]

@@hijodeputa5450 I think if they did combine it should be some sort of Spanish UK scenario. Whtere they're a part of a combined kingdom but also individual countries.

[@ASTUALPHA]

Drom Assault racism? Which other race are portuguese?

[@lazarjovanovic4388]

@@ASTUALPHA asian

[@ignaciobh7370]

As an idea, it sounds really good, but I think it wouldn’t ever work. We are similar countries, with a similar language and a common history and land (Iberian Peninsula), but we are different. Furthermore, it is obvious that one part will have more influence over the other. Spain is bigger and has a larger population than Portugal, so it wouldn’t be an equal Union. Portugal will always be the “smaller” partner, and not because we, as Spaniards, want Portugal to be that, it’s just due to size and population reasons, and Portugal (obviously) will never let that happen, so for us it will be more a pain than a profitable Union. So I think we both prefer to keep our independence, rather than making an experiment that never worked (and which, except for a short historical period of time, none of us wanted either). Even when we two had the first Global Empires and, because of that, a possible conflict of interests, we decided to sing Treaties (Tordesillas and Zaragoza) and to literally distribute the world between each other, just to avoid a direct conflict between us both. And, in general, both parties always respected and honored those treaties, while the rest of European Empires were always fighting to diminish their enemy. We both could have had try to conquer each other, and instead of that, we always preferred to work together and to cooperate. I really love Portugal and as a Spaniard I consider Portuguese people as our brothers, but I think I prefer to share a common house and living in two different rooms, rather than living in the same room together... We need to strengthen ties, we should work together in order to bring closer Iberian culture and heritage all around the world, and we have to start looking to each other more than we are currently doing (I think it was Saramago who said that Spaniards and Portuguese are like Siamese brothers who were born at the same time but who had never looked to each other). I really feel far closer to Portuguese people than to any other European, but, as far as I consider Portugal as a brother, I also think that brothers need to live separately, loving each other and always supporting each other when needed, but each brother needs his own room, which we always be open for each other. I think it’s time now to vindicate a unity, but not in form of a common state, but via culture, history, and a common blood. We don’t need to be a single country in order to get closer, we just need to understand that we will always live next door, and that we will always be brothers. Brothers living separately, but brothers at the end of the day.

[@caracolalface6310]

i couldn't have said it better.

[@andrepereira4941]

That's exactly my point, I have a huge respect for the Spanish people "nuestros hermanos" but it wouldn't be beneficial to any if we joined together. I think that we should strengthen our relationship and build an diplomatic common zone, but an union would only make us fell more apart than today.

[@cavalex]

Good text!

[@gordusmaximus4990]

Well, i think it could work out this time, with a real Federation like these guys: ibernexus.com/ people interested in this topic should sheck it out and see their views, im not saying i fully agree, but doing it like that it could work out, we can see the makers of this site and project care about the other side and not just annexatation like Castillia/Spain wanted.

[@raquelmateo9623]

Muy de acuerdo 👏🏻

[@unclerubo]

As a Galician, I understand why the Portuguese wouldn't want to merge with Spain. Spanish centralists have a tendency to try to supress anyone who wants to keep their own identity. They wouldn't treat the Portuguese any differently.

[@tonybrian7526]

... Talking about nonsense. Your identity is safe within the Spainsh borders, don't worry for that, other thing is that you don't define it as Galician/Spanish, just only Galician..

[@HeavenlyWarrior]

@@Finkiu Portugal sempre foi unido culturalmente, daí não haver diferenças grandes como há em Espanha. Não tem nada a ver com Portugal ser mais centralizado, simplesmente a cultura é muito idêntica de norte a sul do país. A maior diferença é entre o norte e o Algarve (sul). É diferente culturalmente em vários aspectos, é muito diferente no clima, socialmente e economicamente. Sem bem que o norte e partes do centro de Portugal é onde se concentra a maioria do lucro do país, o resto do país vive à custa do norte (isto é um facto).

[@HeavenlyWarrior]

@@Finkiu A única comunidade autónoma é a ilha da Madeira.

[@gustavodeoliveira5254]

Even though i'm brazilian, I wouldn't like if that happened, I really like portugal as a country alone and love our portuguese herritage (principally the language hahaha)

[@primotef8863]

This seemed like an interesting topic, but then I realised both countries are already in a union. The European Union. They already share a common currency, have unrestricted trade and people can move across the peninsula without border controls. I would even argue that the EU is on it's way to become a federation. What other reasons to unite could there possibly be?

[@songohan6006]

I guess to be a more powerful state inside that federation, or to remain united in case the EU falls

[@miguelpinto5239]

I think that if the eu colapses, the south european countrys should create a union of its own 🇵🇹🇮🇹🇪🇸🇬🇷

[@eukarya_]

That would be cool, may get the Balkans in there?

[@marc-antonio]

What? Never. We could create only an economic union between only Spain and Portugal.

[@maanvol]

France, too, are a brother, or sister, nation - - besides, I do adore French girls!

[@TheBoostedDoge]

Holy Roman Empire all over again

[@joaotwt2388]

Portugal and Spain can't stay together

[@acchaves]

Some historical inconsistencies in this video: 4:53 County of Portugal was never subjected to Spain (Spain didn't even exist when the county and later the Kingdom was formed); 6:11 Spain didn't continue on because Spain didn't exist as a country yet; 6:23 Persists the simplification of calling Leon as Spain. Overall, History tells us that some mistakes should not be repeated! The 2 countries are very distinct to be a single country!

[@zap3231]

Bro, the man is Portuguese and he knows very well Spain didn't exist untill the European expansion. He's simplifying for the viewers. Leave him alone. And Portugal WAS subject to Leon and Spain. Leon when we were the county of Portucale. Spain when the Iberian Union happened.

[@pablo364]

Spain has the same king in that moment

[@jesusgil9971]

you can change your name and you will still be the same person

[@dannyrosenberg4175]

Their football team would be unbreakable

[@emilio4968]

Para mi hay dos problemas: 1- Los portugueses se sentirian absorvidos por España. 2- Los españoles tenemos bastantes problemas entre nosotros. Pero aparte de eso el video me ha convencido de que seria una buena idea desde un punto de vista económico.

[@joaotwt2388]

For me there's 2 problems 1- Portuguese people hate the unification ideia 2- Portuguese people hate the unification ideia ;))

[@joaotwt2388]

@Alberto Castillo No one cares about your country dude Portugal is greate alone... I don't want to be in a country witch have Spanish people

[@fl7484]

@Alberto Castillo De certeza?

[@higochumbo8932]

@@joaotwt2388 "Portuguese people = me"

[@higochumbo8932]

​@@Finkiu There are many in Spain open to a union and it has nothing to do with a left-wing/right-wing thing, there are many leftists who would be open to it. There were many reasons for France and Germany to hate each other's guts and here we all are in the European Union and with the goal of becoming an integrated state. It's at best funny that people see more problems with joining Spain and Portugal than with joining Portugal and Lithuania.

[@SpanishDio]

Much love from Mallorca, Spain! Love u hermanos!

[@jesuluc0885]

Q haces aquí Dio??

[@supercanal6714]

WTF de donde salistes

[@xoelpr2349]

Spain is having a really hard time keeping itself together. Adding Portugal would only ensure chaos. More.

[@derneugamer1598]

Anddorra isnt "kind of independant" its a full independant country

[@joshm8324]

it's heads of state are the president of France and some spanish bishop

[@MythoCondria]

@@joshm8324 this

[@miquelcanosasanteularia1678]

@@MythoCondria true, but they have only represantive functions,

[@bronekjeszczeniezdechchwaakrl]

@@joshm8324 and? They have purely representative functions. The head of government is a prime minister elected by parliament

[@VeryRestarted]

True

[@luizfellipe3291]

1:00 "This happened once before When I came through you door, No reply. I tried to telephone They said you weren't home That's a lie..." No Reply ~The Beatles

[@ununoctiu]

Adoro os teus vídeos! Parabéns pelo canal! Venham mais! Foi dos poucos vídeos em que não fiz fast forward na parte do anúncio e até poderei vir a descarregar o jogo por aqui! :D

[@alpharex50]

As a Spanish myself, it saddens me to see how a lot of Portuguese people don't want to unite because Spain treated them poorly 400 years ago. They fail to realise how much both countries have changed over the course of history, and that both countries could very much benefit from uniting, both in terms of economy as in military.

[@HeavenlyWarrior]

Military? Portugal barely has a military LOL Portugal economy is a disgrace and politically is even worse. I'm saying this as a portuguese. And tourism is slowly but steadly destroying Portugal and many people are sick of it but the corrupt government keeps pushing tourism.

[@claudio3028]

As PORTUGUESE i LOVED this video!! Obviously we have a hate-love relationship with Spain but the Ideia is not crazy!! Keep going with the videos and i'm sure that i will keep seing them!! 👍

[@tonybrian7526]

the hate is all yours, only love around here.

[@kommentariios3852]

By reading the comments, I saw that the Spaniards support the idea, while the Portuguese reject it. I don't know the reason, even though Portugal is a poor country.

[@tonybrian7526]

@@kommentariios3852 Portugal is not poor

[@Simplicius95]

I once asked my history teacher what if Spain and Portugal become in a single country. He replied me that we would have the best football selection in the world 🤣

[@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150]

Great video!

[@hjs8092]

We love our brothers- Spain. But no thanks. Portugal 🇵🇹 is the oldest nation in Europe and it makes no sense at all. Partners but different.

[@joseodriozola6042]

HJ S Portugal is not the oldest county in Europe, it has got the oldest borders because they were defined very early, but the oldest county in europe is, by far, San Marino, and the are more

[@hjs8092]

Odriozola Portugal is the 2nd after San Marino for sure. I didn’t refere San Marino just because San Marino is a Micro Country with all my respect. Just google it.

[@joseodriozola6042]

HJ S Italy, Bulgaria and uk are older than portugal, just google it.

[@joseodriozola6042]

HJ S and even more counties sorry but you guys are not the first or second

[@hjs8092]

Odriozola please forgive me but you are wrong. Juts goggle it. And starting with Italy, it’s a country only since +- 1870...só you really need to recheck your sources. Maybe it’s your Italian bias. But things are what they are.

[@eduardofidalgo7022]

9:24 I don't think Portugal would be disproportionally powerful, I mean the GDP of Madrid alone is greater than the entire GDP of Portugal.

[@diogorodrigues747]

E que tal parares de dizer estupidez, hein? O PIB per capita de Portugal em 2019 era de 23.160 US$, o PIB per capita espanhol era de 28.030 US$. Portugal era mais rico que 8 regiões espanholas, e Lisboa era a 3ª cidade mais rica da Península depois de Madrid e Bilbau.

[@renatopinto3186]

@@diogorodrigues747 há várias formas educadas de corrigir alguém, essa não é uma delas.

[@diogorodrigues747]

@@renatopinto3186 Está bem, peço desculpa... 🙏

[@eduardofidalgo7022]

​@@diogorodrigues747 No estoy hablando del PIB per capita, aunque también es superior en la comunidad de Madrid que en Portugal. Estoy hablando del PIB entero de la comunidad de Madrid, que es 272,569M.$, mientras que Portugal tiene un PIB de 240,700M.$. Me refiero a que la economía de la comunidad de Madrid es superior a la de Portugal. 🙏🙏🙏

[@Hramable]

Gosto muito de ver espanhóis a falar que são mais ricos, mas eu que vivo a 3kms da fronteira, quando passo por Ayamonte, Huelva ou Sevilha, não vejo essa riqueza toda reflectida em relação a Vila Real de Santo António, Tavira ou Faro... Claro, sempre atendendo à diferença populacional..

[@realism2660]

Franco would come out of his grave

[@sjoormen1]

He should be thrown out.

[@BazookaLuca]

Eat your cereal

[@helloahla239]

Franco and Salazar were best friends

[@zap3231]

Salazar: PREPARE FOR TROUBLE! Franco: AND MAKE IT DOUBLE!

[@MaSsiVeGaming1]

Salazar never wanted to start the wars. He was a quite peaceful guy for a "dictator".

[@OMamifero]

The top left flag at 7:54 is EVERYTHING. Eu amo meu Portugal demais mas essa bandeira é tão chique, que eu quero realizar ela kkkkk

[@YouTubeMilestonesOfficial]

Who else doesn’t like how KZbin moves the comments section

[@TheTattieShaw]

It's back to where it should be

[@quintusgregor2258]

Ya pretty annoying

[@TrashyEdits]

REALLY SHITTY MOVE I can’t frickin look at the comments without it happening

[@algueiraovelho]

Thank you for using the original Flag of Portus-Cale. With the white background & Blue Cross in the middle.

[@David_is_devil]

Best national football team God ever created. But jokes ahead, I really respect portugese and Spanish people for what they did for civilisation (exploring, colonizing, kicking almoravid as*). Salute Iberians from georgian guy also (Caucasian Iberia) 🇬🇪🤘🐺🤘

[@JesPulido]

Congrats on the sponsorship, btw, that's dope.

[@andresilva3308]

In my Portuguese point of view.....it's Kind of impressive the study that was made, and how the theme was arranged...you did your homework very well..nice vid 😊

[@SrMikicas]

I think the idea of a Iberian economic and cooperation Federation in case of the dream of Europe failing would be a great idea but total national unity is something that is from the past and a nasty business in the long run, specially for Portugal. Saludos a nuestros hermanos portugueses desde Andalucia España

[@HellenicMapping]

This is a weird case. 11 views, 11 likes and 1 dislike. Hm someone is a ghost it seems

[@gpmscosta]

It's the portuguese king Dom Sebastião who came back from the Moroccan mist to haunt his fellow citizen for thinking about such a possibility

[@VeryRestarted]

I remeber you

[@HellenicMapping]

@@VeryRestarted Yep im famous

[@v.sandrone4268]

How do fix this irregularity? A revote with international observers?

[@zozzy4630]

Maybe he liked his own video without viewing it after it went up lol

[@VeryRestarted]

You should get more views! You must've done a lot of work making this video :)

[@TheTattieShaw]

Well if you ever want to suggest ideas for the future or ask him questions about videos join his discord server link in the description

[@VeryRestarted]

@@TheTattieShaw okay!

[@General.Knowledge]

Thanks! Really glad you liked it :)

[@vascomedeiros3600]

And during the 14th century, if I am not wrong, Spain almost became part of Portugal!

[@andremarins7321]

Could you make a video showing “what if Mercosur(Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay) becomes a Single country as a Mercosur Union” ?

[@sohopedeco]

Venezuela suspended since forever.

[@General.Knowledge]

Sure!

[@rolfelim7587]

La Gran Republica Popular de la Banana E s broma

[@HagioEdu]

@@rolfelim7587 Não,das "republiquinhas" do elo perdido! Chupa!

[@DiogoF.]

I am Portuguese and am 100% pro Iberian Federation. I get chills when, particularly, I hear Catalan, for some reason I can't put to words, or Galician, for example to a lesser extend. We share something nothing and no one can break. Not even geopolitics.

[@Toniblast]

yeah, I'm also Portuguese and think that would be cool in theory we would be closer to our Spanish brother that we share a lot. And regional languages like Galician and Catalan would be spoken again. The problem is that's just in theory in practice would be a complete mess and would probably fail.

[@cactitiger]

This is definitely one of my favorite channels

[@TheTattieShaw]

Well if you ever want to suggest ideas for future videos join his discord server and suggest then there link in the description

[@cactitiger]

Why have you replied that on multiple comments

[@TheTattieShaw]

@@cactitiger cause I'm one of his mods and always trying to help him anyway I can

[@cactitiger]

Ok

[@General.Knowledge]

Yay! :) Really glad you like it!

[@realhawaii5o]

Hi. I am portuguese and I would support an Iberian Federation, in which Portugal is equal, not with Spain, but with Galicia, Castille ans Léon, Andalusia, Aragon, Catalonia, basically the Spanish subdivisions. The capital would probably be Madrid since it's already designed as an independent capital state, and it would have a Semi-presidential system.

[@luisgrade7384]

Iberic Union only Lisbon as capital and the portuguese as oficial language. And the spanish as regional language. Ok ?

[@marinagutierrez3487]

So the spaniards will not want to unite with Portugal but with Douro, Beira, Algarve, Alentejo, etc

[@ancianosonriente9015]

Divide Portugal un regions

[@pedrovasconcelos3204]

Haha spanish infiltrated

[@anna3046]

I doubt you are Portuguese! I real native Portuguese person would never agree to that!

[@CherryBerryBite]

Cool video!👍

[@qidewen]

The world will come to an end before this happens.

[@rayititoman]

We, Spaniards, and Portuguese are close neighbours and good friends. But that doesn't mean you want to have your neighbour staying in your couch all day. Portuguese don't want an union. Spanish don't want it either.

[@catalannationalist9847]

Catalans don't want it either.

[@joseodriozola6042]

garrafenc catalans are spanish so

[@awddsa2923]

@@catalannationalist9847 I'm catalan and I do want it so?

[@miguelpinto5239]

Latin brothers 🇵🇹🇪🇸🇮🇹

[@matteofazio7845]

What about France and Romania?

[@pedromiguelalmeida4446]

Happy with our own borders, the three countries. French are arrogant, Romania would be fine but I guess they prefer the balkan/eastern countries axis.

[@miguelpinto5239]

I only put these 3 because they have very simular cultures

[@MartinhoRamos1990]

Óptimo canal!

[@edwardm8292]

The Spanish came unexpectedly.....

[@General.Knowledge]

And in such an _inquisitive_ manner

[@luissilvacosta2093]

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition

[@anna3046]

I’m Portuguese - I love and respect our lovely and amazing sibling neighbours! But the answer is : NON!

[@kimyona9746]

He's from portugal too. This dude did this as a joke

[@daryturian9162]

Spain and Portugal merging is possible when Canada and the US merge or Australia and New Zealand which is never going to happen.

[@Gloriaimperial1]

But Hispanic America and Brazil can form a kind of European Union in America, because Spanish and Portuguese are the same in 89% of the words. 85% Catholic. The sum of Spanish and Portuguese speakers in Spain, America, Africa and Asia, as their mother tongue and Catholic religion, is 700 million people. 20 millions km2. The sum of the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa (including people who have English as a second language) is 510 million people.

[@v4pizza456]

When i heard u saying the name "saramago", i must to say that ur accent is pretty good! It was just like a poruguese person

[@henriquem.9763]

He is portugueix

[@MaSsiVeGaming1]

He is Portuguese. How is his accent not obvious. Even in English I knew he was Portuguese.

[@Lynxpt]

Make a video about Portugaliza!

[@G3waisglas]

Interesting video option: union Romania-Moldova, reunited Irland, the "United States of Great Austria Project", the partition of belgium, and the partition in North Italy and The Two Sicilies!

[@General.Knowledge]

US of Austria is a great idea! I remember a HOI4 Mod that used that right?

[@marcustonon4775]

@@General.Knowledge from what i remember it is used in kaiserreich, and then you can unite them into the danubian federation, austria-hungary, or don't unite at all. best mod in hoi4 tbh

[@G3waisglas]

@@General.Knowledge sorry my english Is bad and I don't understand what is "HOI4 mod" but meu português é bom, sou argentino e estudei a lingua na universidade!

[@eduardofidalgo7022]

As a Spanish, I would like to say I would enjoy this union.

[@ZuGa1384]

¿En verdad? ¡Vamos que tienen problemas con Cataluña y otras regiones que quieren independizarse!

[@j.c.serranosanchez3190]

As a Spaniard and a Galician I abhor this idea. Always friend, never united. It will simply not work and is not worth the trouble

[@diogorodrigues747]

@@allanism Isso provavelmente deve-se ao facto de Espanha ser uma invenção de Castela.

[@tisha8302]

@@ZuGa1384 Cuando en un equipo todos quieren irse, es que el problema es del grupo. Hay secesionismos por toda españa porque es un pais peligroso para la UE, todos sus paises relevantes se construyeron en la lucha contra españa. La historia que estudiamos esta llena de propaganda suya. De hecho incluso la literatura española es una amenaza para ellos, siempre la han buscado reinterpretar desde el erasmismo y otras cosas asi. Con un pais mas grande y fuerte, los secesionismos disminuirian. Asi se ve en la america española, cuando mas divididos, mas debiles fueron frente a los vecinos y enemigos.

[@tisha8302]

@@allanism Falso, euskadi y cataluña si quieren estar, lo que pasa es que hacen como que no para forzar a ganar privilegios. Euskadi es un paraiso fiscal y cataluña lleva dos siglos de proteccionismos en la industria. Ambas regiones eran poca cosa antes del siglo XVIII, cuando se perdio america y la economia fue reorientada de hispanoamerica a francia, y españa se afranceso. El norte se beneficio economicamente de que el pais paso a negociar principalmente con francia. Por otro lado, que quieran o no, no les hace tener razon o dejar de tenerla.

Very interesting. Thanks from Navarra! :D

[@thatoneannoyingguy6619]

The closest of a Union between Spain and Portugal should personally be a trading partnership or maybe a military alliance. A full union would cause more trouble than its worth

[@alfrredd]

I think the idea of a federal Iberian Union would be the best of both countries, with each region maintaining cultures languages and autonomy. But The the best realistic option for our nations is to cooperate and grow tighter bonds (similar to Benelux) while maintaining 2 sovereignties. 🇪🇸💞🇵🇹

[@ricardopontes7177]

European countries will lose sovereignty anyhow

[@alfrredd]

@@ricardopontes7177 Like we have much sovereignty now 😂

[@lipadn]

We are good as we are, thank you!! As we say in Portugal: each one in its own house xD

[@zazu7757]

General being such a lad and saying "I'll take 60 seconds to talk to you" so we know how long to skip forward. What a boy.

[@JmSantos78]

This was very enjoyable to watch. Just one minor correction; 'Português' in English is spelled 'Portuguese'.

[@carlosvida2173]

Yo he vivido tanto en Portugal como en España. Y ambos son la hostia.

[@diogorodrigues747]

No digas eso...

[@tisha8302]

@@diogorodrigues747 Solo por si acaso, jajaja... ser la hostia es algo bueno, espero que se haya entendido

[@masterjacke20]

Lol

[@turikuusaiku7962]

Bom vídeo! É uma ideia incrível. Continua general! s2

[@General.Knowledge]

Obrigado!

[@Joker-yw9hl]

Love the play with the LOTR speech at the beginning of the Fellowship film

[@a.caeiro7775]

Wow! Saving it for later! I want to wtach this with all time and atention! :)

[@General.Knowledge]

Good! :)

[@a.caeiro7775]

​@@General.Knowledge :D watched with full attention and loved your perspective! Yes, it would be interesting, but it is much better as it is, each country montage their independence, culture and identity. People say that Portugal and Spain are brother nations and I agree. Fought a lot when children and now, as grown up brothers each one must live its own life indenpentely, dealing supporting each other. Love your work! Truly!

[@jurajvarju2664]

3:55 “But there were some who resisted. A last aliance of Christian kingdoms matched against the armies of Morse.” I see what you did here. One youtuber to rule them all

[@zap3231]

*facepalm* MOORS, not Morse!

[@antonioamosanchez4912]

Very interesting video, but in my opinion it does not lack certain subjective bias towards Portugal. For example, how would Spanish language risk became Portuguese? It does not make sense. All equal things considered (here there is no superior culture or anything like that) the most spoken language would likely prevail, in case only one survives. And Spanish is more widely spoken, both inside and also outside the Iberian Peninsula. GDP difference of 7K per capita is not huge, but still relevant. Also you think Spain is completely fractured, but this is not the case. There are troubles in certain autonomous regions, but not even the whole regions with a co-official language would want to secede. In Galicia the center-right is ruling as so have done many times, for example. No, Spain would not join such federation as a collection of 17 states (maybe some of them could, but not the whole country), and therefore Portugal would not dominate the union. Also Portugal lacks big cities (with the exception of th capital Lisbon), which could be counter-productive for this country in the long run, in case such union one day happens. If cities grow in both countries, the relative increment of Spanish population in Portuguese cities would be bigger than Portuguese in Spanish cities.

[@SaltEnjoyer007]

True, this 7k per capita is a LOT in a total of 30k then that topic was super bias and people can say whatever they want but each region just want more power and not separation. Spain together is a global power and got a saying in EU ruling but if were 7 small Countrys they would be powerless and no voice in Europe like Portugal. Portuguese people love to be "Patriotic" and say "never" in anexation but at same time run at droves to work and live outside, double standards....what i am not liking of Spain now is seing it go so muth left/feminist leaning and voting for Socialism goverments, they will destroy Spain like Socialism destroyed Portugal. Wish the best to you anons, great Country and one of the Best in Europe to live, pretty good economic power with great weather and food.

[@popplay8084]

@@SaltEnjoyer007 “Spain is global power”. You had me laughing, ngl.

[@facelessguy]

I love this idea ... I like it when countrys merge together!!! :DDD

[@byTrafiken]

11:44 Solution, decentralizing the power with various capitals, Lisbon and Madrid, but maybe adding some more like Barcelona. All regions would have the same power on the government and there wouldn't be a president but more like a council just like the council of Europe in which all the presidents of each region of Iberia (presidents choosen democraticaly) would discuss about the ruling of Iberia.

[@tonysokaleoralvsky2640]

Can you do a video where every single communist country united as one, the Communist Republic?

[@TheTattieShaw]

Join his discord and suggest this idea there link in the description

[@javieralreves]

@La Rugs Cuba made some politicam and Constitutional changes in 2019, so I don't think they are communist anymore

[@diegogaliano8417]

There are no "communist" States in the world. There have only been two socialist States, the Soviet Union until 1956 and Albania until the 50's.

[@javieralreves]

@La Rugs China is not socialist/communist, it has a capitalist economy and their constitution says they are maoist, and North Korea has an internal economy which some defectors from NK describe as capitalist, and they are described as Juche (sorry for my english)

[@night-sky_]

“Andorra who is kind of independent” Bruh it’s independent

[@SomeoneWithInternet]

When I was a child I thought a good idea create the "Iberian Kingdom" something similar to the UE but under an only flag. Spain, Portugal, Catalonia, Euskadi, Galicia, Andorra and Gibraltar. I was a child so I didn't know how really complicated would be

[@reed6134]

i just realized you're portuguese. All those times when you perfectly said a portuguese word should've already give me that hint. Bons dias

[@nunocbnunocb5875]

Por muito que admiremos SM Filipe VI, é impossível, temos uma história com quase 900 anos e não Stamos dispostos a abrir a mão disso. Melhores amigos? Sim, mas apenas isso.

[@ppb4037]

Portugal pudo ser españa en el pasado, el problema que Portugal no se uniera al resto de españa fue por qué Juana la Beltraneja perdió la Guerra contra los reyes católicos. Si la hubiera ganado. Hoy en día españa sería Portugal + Castilla, y Aragon (Valencia, Aragon, Cataluña y Baleares) sería otro país independiente como lo es hoy Portugal.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Physically breaking off and drifting away? So basically what Bugs Bunny did to Florida. This is one of those ideas that sounds good at first but wouldn't work out in the long term

[@pedromiguelalmeida4446]

What long term if the short one never happened? 🇵🇹

[@General.Knowledge]

Yeah America would never get over losing the news stories of the Florida Man

[@robertcuevas3602]

Pedro Miguel Almeida you really hate Spain